Lee, Nathaniel 1700

Nathaniel LEE (1700 - 1736) and Dorothy TAYLOR (1713 - ?)

my 6g-grandparents

Nathaniel LEE Jr was born on 3 May 1700 in Westfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony. His parents were Nathaniel LEE Sr and Abigail/Abigeirl.

Nathaniel LEE and Dorothy TAYLOR were married on 30 Mar 1732, in Westfield, Massachusetts. They had 3 children, in Westfield.

Dorothy TAYLOR was born on 25 Nov 1713, in Springfield, MA, the daughter of James and Dorothy TAYLOR. The birth record below is for Dorothy/Doroty and her brother, Asael TAYLOR, b. 13 Apr 1712.

Nathaniel LEE died on 4 Apr 1736, at age 35, leaving a wife and 3 small children.

1. Daniel LEE was born 29 Sep 1732 in Westfield, MA.

Daniel LEE married Agnis CAMBEL in 1762, Westfield, MA. This record says the marriage was 31 Apr 1762, so it must be 30 Apr or 1 May. Their first child was born less than 5 months later.

I am unsure about the origin of "Agnis Cambel of Westfield." There was an extended family of CAMPBELLs in Southwick/Westfield, and another in Oxford. The Oxford CAMPBELLs had an Agnes, about the right age:

Robert CAMPBELL settled in Southwick around 1750, and some of his sons later lived in adjoining Westfield. Agnes may have been his daughter.

Daniel LEE and Agnis CAMBEL had 6 children, from 1762 to 1772.

Daniel LEE served as a Private in Capt. Silas FOWLER's company, Col. John MOSELEY's regiment, Massachusetts troops, and died in 1792, Southwick, Massachusetts. [DAR]

2. Nathaniel LEE III, born 10 Dec 1733, in Westfield, MA. He moved to Great Barrington, Berkshire County, MA, about 30 miles west of Westfield. He bought property in Great Barrington in 1759, when he was 25 or 26. Nathaniel married Sarah HUBBEL on 20 Dec 1763, in Great Barrington, MA. See the Nathaniel LEE 1733 page.

3. Abigail/Abigal LEE was born 10 Sep 1735 in Westfield, MA. She married Tyler LARRABEE in Westfield. There are discrepancies among several records of this event. Tyler is sometimes Tylar, and LARRABEE is sometimes LARABEE. One record has the marriage on 23 Feb 1756, but that is an error. The consensus seems to be that the couple published their intention to marry on 23 Feb 1760, and the marriage took place on 1 Apr 1760. They had an illegitimate child, who died in infancy, before the marriage. After marriage they had 5 children, in Westfield.

Sources

[CJT] History of Great Barrington (1882) by Charles J. Taylor

[CV] History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts : with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men

[DAR] The DAR Lineage Book, Vol. 160, page 239.

[FHH] A genealogy of the Ingersoll family in America, 1629-1925 : comprising descendants of Richard Ingersoll of Salem, Massachusetts (1926) by Frederick H. Hitchcock (requires Ancestry.com license)

[HAM] Historical Atlas of Massachusetts (1991) by Richard W. Wilkie and Jack Tager

[JS] A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, before 1692, by James Savage

[LFT] Nathaniel Lee in the Lee Family Tree

[WSL] Binghamton : its settlement, growth, and development, and the factors in its history, 1800-1900, by William Summer Lawyer (1900)

Updated 4 Sep 2020 by William Haloupek. Contact haloupek at gmail dot com.